Las Piedras Amazon Center

Your guide to the Amazon rainforest, including how to visit, where to volunteer, which products and services to support, and how you can help protect it.

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Fair trade coffee is the best kind of coffee! ☕

[Rainforest Alliance @RnfrstAlliance]

On #InternationalCoffeeDay—and every day—support the farmers and workers producing your morning cup of #coffee by choosing more #sustainable options. https://t.co/ltmObxE0Ts via @foodtank #FollowTheFrog

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

Here we have a Brazilian Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) running along the banks of the Las Piedras River 🏞 The elusive Brazilian Tapir is very rare to see during the day as it mainly feeds at… https://t.co/sWN8Co5OY7

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Sounds like a world we don't want to live in! We love our turtle friends 🐢

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Turtles do a lot for the world's ecology—here's what we would lose without them https://t.co/ebEKkKne2d

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

Our wildlife species of the day is the mesmerizing Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus caninus)! These creatures have a strong prehensile tail which allows them to move among the rainforest canopy… https://t.co/xnx9zJRdIy

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Fun fact: three-toed slothes only have a reproductive capacity of one offspring per year!

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

After surviving high tide, this baby sloth was found pinned between two rocks—and rescued just in time

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

This is one of the many side effects of illegal exploitation of the Amazon we are working to prevent #letindigenouspplbe #savetherainforest

[National Geographic History @NatGeoHistory]

Even in protected and largely untouched expanses of rain forest in Brazil and Peru, isolated groups must live on the run to escape the depredations of illegal logging, gold prospecting, and now drug trafficking. https://t.co/8AsyCE2WPY

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

We are looking for a bird and a mammal research coordinator for our 2018/19 season to work along the Las Piedras River in the Madre de Dios region of Peru's Amazon Rainforest 🐾 Message for more information!

[The Nature Conservancy @nature_org]

Without forests, there is no climate solution. Don't let forests be #TheForgottenSolution. || via @YEARSofLIVING & @JaneGoodallInst

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Have you ever wanted to work for a NGO behind the scenes to aid in fulfilling its mission while living in Peru? Then look no further because ARCAmazon is currently hiring a volunteer coordination intern & a communications/marketing intern! Message us for more!

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

On Saturdays, we learn about plants 🌱 Here we have our forest ranger, Ronald, and our tour guide, Julio, instructing on various plant species that are so important to our conservation… https://t.co/HuwJvIVsfB

[Nature4Climate @Nature4Climate]

We need to re-green the planet now with these highly-effective, affordable & scalable solutions that are the most natural way of restoring balance to the Earth’s carbon cycle. #TheForgottenSolution https://t.co/C3qomHMDkW #GCAS2018 #StepUp2018

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Nature can be utilized to save itself, let's not make it the #ForgottenSolution

[National Geographic History @NatGeoHistory]

Large forests are capable of sucking up large amounts of carbon, and environmentalists are hoping that protecting them will be the solution to saving the planet. https://t.co/BSEpMsRy2D

[World Wildlife Fund @World_Wildlife]

Explore some of the lesser-known ecosystems that keep our planet livable and help fight climate change: https://t.co/jHenHnfhTj #GCAS2018 #StepUp2018

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

Whether big or microscopic, our impact on the Earth can be seen and felt at all levels. Remember to responsibly rid of your waste and go #plasticfree !

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

Being able to conserve our rainforest ecosystems while benefitting the local community and economy is the ultimate conservation goal. Well done the Jiménez family! 🌱

[Rainforest Alliance @RnfrstAlliance]

Juan Jiménez and his family have restored the #ecosystem on their coffee farm in Perú. Their farm is now more productive, more #climate resilient, and provides better habitat for #wildlife. (Plus, it's been #RainforestAlliance Certified™ since 2010!) https://t.co/Zdp7KalYuo

[World Wildlife Fund @World_Wildlife]

Happy #WhaleSharkDay!

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @AmazonCenter1]

A very interesting read as to how droughts are reaching normalcy in the Amazonian regions, and their effects on the overall ecosystem

[Rainforest Alliance @RnfrstAlliance]

As droughts become more normal thanks to #climatechange, just one season of drought can reduce the #carbon dioxide absorption ability of the world’s biggest #rainforest—the Amazon—for years to come. https://t.co/yIWpMfRBzo via @mongabay #WWWeek

[The Nature Conservancy @nature_org]

It cannot be overstated: Water security is fundamental to all sustainable economic and human development. https://t.co/SJHVM14Toq #WWWeek

[Las Piedras Amazon Center @lpac_peru]

It's #WorldWaterWeek! The Las Piedras River in the Madre de Dios Basin and Peruvian Amazon is very near and dear to our hearts. That's why we work to conserve its beauty, while fishing it sustainably as this volunteer is doing 🎣💙